Martin Luther King: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic) (50 Years of the Playboy Interview) by Playboy Magazine


Martin Luther King: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic) (50 Years of the Playboy Interview)
Title : Martin Luther King: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic) (50 Years of the Playboy Interview)
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Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 34
Publication : First published September 6, 2012

In mid-1962, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was given a partial transcript of an interview with Miles Davis. It covered jazz, of course, but it also included Davis’s ruminations on race, politics and culture. Fascinated, Hef sent the writer—future Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Alex Haley, an unknown at the time—back to glean even more opinion and insight from Davis. The resulting exchange, published in the September 1962 issue, became the first official Playboy Interview and kicked off a remarkable run of public inquisition that continues today—and that has featured just about every cultural titan of the last half century.To celebrate the Interview’s 50th anniversary, the editors of Playboy have culled 50 of its most (in)famous Interviews and will publish them over the course of 50 weekdays (from September 4, 2012 to November 12, 2012) via Amazon’s Kindle Direct platform. Here is the interview with the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. from the January 1965 issue. "

Martin Luther King: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic) (50 Years of the Playboy Interview) Reviews

  • Jennifer Serenity

    From the mouth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr in 1965!!

    Thank you, Kindle Unlimited, for this treasure that I never knew existed.

    Thank you to Playboy magazine for thinking out the box and to able to land this interview with Dr. King in 1965, which was three years before his assassination in 1968.

    Like the average person in the universe, there are the basics that I know of Dr. King, which is his name and his speech, "I have a dream."

    Now, I know more of Dr. King's work from the average person and THIS interview filled in so many gaps that I never even thought about or would never know.

    There exists a photo of Dr. King and Malcolm X not talked about in this interview, but I have seen it.

    Dr. King shares about the one and only time he met Malcolm X. Dr. King said that they did not have hardly any time to talk, but he shared his views about Malcolm X, which changed my perspective of what Dr. King may have really thought.

    I wonder if Dr. King knew this photo existed of their meet-up and that some people in 2023 now think that photo was photo shopped! NOT!

    Another point that sticks out to me is the plan that Dr. King had for true American unity and how to possibly solve the division.

    There are a few things he lays out but what impressed me was that he shared the economics of how to possibly solve it by implementing financial literacy and providing opportunities that would teach a skill set for the individual to improve their life. Specifically, he says the plan is for Black people. However, in today's world (2023), this opportunity definitely could work but for those who have been historically marginalized in the USA.

    My mother wrote a letter to Dr. King in the late 1950s when she was a college student and never knew if Dr. King received it. She did not know he received it until 2022 when she was 82 years old.. She was either 18 or 19 when she wrote it.

    Many things that he said in her letter to her are still of his belief in 1965. Though he gave hee more ideas of how to take action at that time in the 1950s, Dr. King's Playboy interview truly gives more context for the world at large.

    In summary, this interview definitely is applicable to our ongoing racial division and, in a way, a prophecy of what could have happened if a certain person was elected into office.. You have to read it to understand what he says and apply it to the state of the world in 2023. This is why everyone must read this interview now!!!!


    ---FYI - The letters are at Stanford University & Boston University under the name Ruby Nell Burrows, "Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." You have to be either a student or a professor at these schools to get the letters. Mg mother blazed her own trail by being one of the 2 Black women to practice law in the state of Florida in 1965, which was the year of this interview. She went on to achieve in her own right as a forward thinker and visionary who have back to her community

    Suggestion - It would be wonderful if Playboy would make this interview available in a printed book or a collectible magazine. A portion of those profits or all could go to the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, GA. Just a thought :)

  • Rickey Ard

    Excellent and revealing read!

    This was enlightening about Dr. King's beliefs and purpose. It is frightening that the conditions that he described and still present today....